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Originally Posted by ltforce
I enjoy playing this game and thinking wow if this really happend...what would the war have been like!!
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It's fun and interesting to speculate.
After a British naval disaster like this my guess is that Uncle Sam may have come to the rescue. During the actual war the US fleet carrier
Ranger was loaned to the Royal Navy for a time. With US still neutral I wouldn't have surprised if she would have been offered under Lend-Lease given a full-blown British naval emergency. I can also imagine US battleships starting to escort convoys earlier and more aggressively than they did previously under the terms of the Neutrality Patrol. Who knows? We could have an interesting battle pitting the
Bismarck versus the
North Carolina.
Tirpitz had a lot of teething problems and was still on sea trials in the Baltic well into 1941. As a consequence she wasn't deployed to Norway until early 1942. The Germans could have rushed her into action, but may have run into the same problems the British did with the
Prince of Wales.